In the seicont hauf o the nineteent century the tounship came unner the influence o mayor Felix Martin an writer Alphonse Karr, an awin tae thair efforts an its beneficial climate the commune developed intae a seaside resort popular wi airtists, sportsmen an politeecians.

It is the heidquarters o the Fréjus Saint-Raphaël canton, which is the economic an cultural centre o eastren Var an lies in the arrondissement o Draguignan. Its indwallers are cried Raphaëlois in French generally, or Rafelencs in Provençal Occitan.

Saint-Raphaël is separatit frae Fréjus bi the river Pédégal: fed bi the Garonne, the Adrets-o-l'Esterel, Saint-Jean-de-Cannes an Saint-Jean-de-l'Esterel.

The River Agay flows frae the muntains doun throu the veelage o that name, an is fed bi the streams Cabre, Perthus an Grenouillet. The Grenouillet is the maist important o thir streams, haein average flows o atween 43 cu m/s in Julie an 1160 cu m/s in Januar.

The River Valescure, which is chanelled throu the Barrage des Crous (dam), dischairges intae the River Reyran at Fréjus.

Thare wur three separate air raids made on this viaduct frae Ingland, atween September 1943 an Februar 1944, involvin a tot o thirty-ane Lancaster bombers operatin some seiven hunder miles frae base. Aircraft o the seicont raid flew on tae Rabat, an frae the third raid on tae Sardinie. Ane Lancaster frae the first raid wis lost, an a flicht lieutenant bomb aimer on the third raid wis killed bi enemy fire, some o which came frae ships at sea. Aw the raids failed in thair objective an the rail link wis no severed.[3]